I had to write it down somewhere for posterity – the obligatory “best of”, in no particular order, for the last tropical year (including many 2007 releases that rolled in late). Slate clean, here’s to ’09.
pic: Ellen Allien by Michael Mann
ELLEN ALLIEN ‘Sool’
THE BUG ‘London Zoo’
ITAL TEK ‘Cyclical’
LEILA ‘Blood, Looms & Blooms’
2562 ‘Aerial’
TUSSLE ‘Cream Cuts’
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN ‘Fire Escape’
DFA / SUPERSOUL ‘Nobody Knows Anything: DFA Presents SuperSoul’
DUSK & BLACKDOWN ‘Margins Music’
EL REMELON ‘Pibe Cosmo’
ZOMBY ‘Where Were U In 92?’
RONG MUSIC / DFA ‘Notwave’
STATIC DISCOS ‘Safety Stock’
FIRST AID KIT ‘Drunken Trees’
FLYING LOTUS ‘Los Angeles’
FANTASTIKOI HXOI ‘Kyriarxoi Tou Sympantos’
SKULL DISCO ‘Soundboy’s Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals’
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA ‘Black Diamond’
ACTRESS ‘Hazyville’
FREE BLOOD ‘Singles’
MEGASOID ‘Speed Knots Vol.1’
EL GUINCHO ‘Alegranza’
GHISLAIN POIRIER ‘No Ground Under’
SAUL WILLIAMS ‘The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!’
PORTISHEAD ‘Third’
KIM HIORTHOY ‘My Last Day’
MOCHIPET ‘Microphonepet’
APPARAT ‘Things To Be Frickled’
DJC & ZULU ‘Gods & Robots’